Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present conditions for a nation to create foreign trade barriers, it pointed out, the same type of thing was unthinkable within a nation. The New York Times agreed thatthe logical conclusion would come "when we gave up buying & selling altogether and went in for spinning our own wool on Park Avenue and rendering our own tallow candles on Michigan Boulevard." But said the Times: "Can it be that Buy-Illinois and Buy-Kentucky crusades are themselves the logical result of Buy-American movements, such as the weekly publication referred to Saturday Evening Post] has perhaps heard...
...body, nerve, or brain diseases have been treated-is to give the patients mild medication and then to force them to do the very things which they fear to do. Hard reason and scant sympathy accomplish much in the large, book-&-furniture crowded consulting room of his private Park Avenue Hospital...
With Depression, Yellowstone tourists have grown fewer, hotel scraps scarcer, bears hungrier. In Washington last week Director Horace Marden Albright announced that the National Park Service had been forced to kill 49 Yellowstone black bears, one grizzly during last summer and autumn...
...worst offenders among the Park's 550 black bears, 175 grizzlies were earmarked or had their feet painted so they would leave tracks when they broke into cabins or automobiles. For repeated offenses the penalty was death by bullet. Said Director Albright last week: "They didn't mean any harm, but when they developed gangster habits among the tourists ... we had to kill them...
...life of an aging harlot is not likely to be much like a faun's afternoon. In A Day Off the blowzy heroine, just ditched by her last furtive provincial protector, blows in all her remaining shillings on a junket to Richmond Park, to have a nap on the grass. In the ladies' room she has luck enough to steal a purse, and when she gets home she finds a farewell present from George under her door. But she knows the jig is almost up. Authoress Jameson puts her to bed, watches her doze off. "The pulse...